http://www.elliotttucker.com en-gb elliotttucker.com 2012-4-14T00:00:00Z elliotttucker.com http://www.elliotttucker.com/page19.htm#116458 The most raw angerEchoes of a screaming helpless childSoaked in tears that dont fallBecause the pain is blocked by itselfBelieve in nooneTheyve all taken their spoils of herA world full of banditsWho rob their own pocketsFailing to see their own reflectionI did tooIm an idiot a pigI also ate at the kings tableLike a wretchLike a feral catScavenging in the darkSpraying pissAnimals have no remorseBut I doIt haunts my days and sleepIt might be the death of meFinally to live againI really hurt herAnd I hurt myselfShe forgave meThe only personI can never forgiveIs myselfBecause even when I Was doing wrongI was doing it In loveThat she might knowThe worst of meAs I doAnd the worst of herBut still to loveIf only she knew My truth All of my heartBecause in my mistakes Beneath them Is a pure soulI always knewAlthough I liedGod showed meAllowed escapeFrom my pitI feel shameI feel lostI feel disillusionedI was shown signsThat were false comfortThe best is not to knowShe sets me boundaries That ex... 2012-4-14 19:55:08 http://www.elliotttucker.com/page19.htm#100429 rioting young men are vulnerable young menby Elliott Leigh Tucker on Tuesday 09 August 2011 at 0056ive been working with this client group for at least 7 years. Angry young men are vulnerable young men. Destruction is not acceptable. But with no job no hope no chances. This is how they communicate. Broken families. Broken lives. Ours is a Polarised society. Of haves and have nots. we need to listen rather than judge them as animals. It might be too late. But the only way is to find means to allow the vulnerable to express their pain in non destructive ways. Such as projects i run and support. And society needs to hear what they are saying. One thing is that they mostly seem to target the capitalism that enslaves their desire to consume. And the empty meaninglessness of consumption leads to destruction. for humanity to act out pain to try find its soul in the darkness.LikeUnlike 183 183 Share 183 Delete Jennifer Nelson Rachel Godfrey Charlotte Kane and 8 others like this. ... 2011-8-13 22:43:17 http://www.elliotttucker.com/page19.htm#85467 article on tubishvat experience at moishe houseby up and coming writer shara hikmet TuBishvat at the Moishe House A pulsating hum vibrates from the basement as I descend the stairs. As the sound rises and the light darkens I cant help but worry that I have embarked upon a cult. I was informed that the Moishe House is a hub of alternative Jewish practice but I now question just how alternative these practices will be Will I discover a crowd preparing rituals with skull bones and incense Or perhaps an enclave of hippies will be dancing around a fire As I enter the heart of the humming I am relieved to find a serene atmosphere with elements characteristic of a TuBishvat seder. An alluring glow of candlelight illuminates the spread of fruit wine and humming participants arranged on the floor. However I still decide to perch beside a good exit route purely as a contingency plan. The seder was comprised of four sections representative of the four calendar seasons. Each sectio... 2011-1-26 09:55:26 http://www.elliotttucker.com/page19.htm#85466 Chinyere Nwobani Could you please answer these questions from your religious stand point. Its research for a project. 3.1 State how one faith tradition would explain the purpose of human life.3.2 State how one faith tradition would explain the purpose of d...eath.Elliott Leigh Tuckermainstream jewish tradition seems to suggest that life is for the purpose of mitzvot good deeds commanded in the torah to spread light give to humanity and tikkun rebuilding the sparks of holiness in the world to allow more holiness in.... so one of the main modern teachers the Lubavitcher Rebbe suggests its about transforming what is dark into light by redeeming soulspeople from their darkness and changing their nature because ultimately everything and everyone has a spark of holiness in it its just often hidden. in terms of death the kabbalistic tradition speaks about gilgul reincarnation. that the good deeds done in the physical world are the only thing that promotes the soul in the afterlif... 2011-1-26 09:53:11 http://www.elliotttucker.com/page19.htm#83661 2012 a relaxed guide2012 is of major significance to our lives. 2012 is no doomsday or apocalyptic event that some parts of the media and web are exclaiming. this is nonsense.this guide aims to give a chilled and pleasant look at a seminal moment in human and cosmic civilisation.the basic premise arrived from personal development searching questing and psychic exploration is that 2012 will be an enlightening moment for many people and is an important part of human development.it will represent the crystallisation of some of the spiritual or heavenly non physical realms into our physical world. this is only the beginning of a huge change in human awareness. but it needs to happen in order to set up the rest of the journey.so what will this involve well many people will become far more sentient beings. that is many of us will become more psychically aware. we are already doing this. time and human activity is speeding up to a crescendo in order to reach this moment. we find ourselves rea... 2011-1-2 10:35:25 http://www.elliotttucker.com/page19.htm#25429 part of the power of the ninja comes not from themselves but from the fears of those around them. but another very important source of power comes from the ninjas own shadow. here rather than giving away the energy if the shadow it is retained via accepting their own negative and inferior qualities rather than denying them or pushing them away.it takes tremendous courage to face our own shadow side to admit that we have qualities of being that we wish we were free from to acknowledge our inferior sides. we all want to be strong powerful and secure not the opposite. however strength is not gained by ignoring our weaknesses but by seeking them out working with them and correcting them.facing the shadow does indeed take courage. it also takes genuine discipline and it certainly does not include repression. however as difficult as it is to face the shadow once it has been faced an interesting thing happens. we see that the shadow side of ourselves is not all negative. from our former limi... 2008-6-12 01:52:11 http://www.elliotttucker.com/page19.htm#24116 17For I am about to create new heavensand a new earththe former things shall not be rememberedor come to mind.18But be glad and rejoice for everin what I am creatingfor I am about to create Jerusalem as a joyand its people as a delight.19I will rejoice in Jerusalemand delight in my peopleno more shall the sound of weeping be heard in itor the cry of distress.20No more shall there be in itan infant that lives but a fewdaysor an old person who does not live out a lifetimefor one who dies at a hundred years will be considered a youthand one who falls short of a hundred will be considered accursed.21They shall build houses and inhabit themthey shall plant vineyards and eat their fruit.22They shall not build and another inhabitthey shall not plant and anothereatfor like the days of a tree shall the days of my people beand my chosen shall long enjoy the work of their hands.23They shall not labour in vainor bear children for calamity ltspanltemsudden terrorltem onmouseoutreturn nd styletextde... 2008-5-11 20:11:34 http://www.elliotttucker.com/page19.htm#23297 to all the doubters the pessimists the fearful...how do you seedo you see the light or the darkagain look in the mirror...what do you seewhat do you see 2008-4-24 16:22:07 http://www.elliotttucker.com/page19.htm#22473 Theres probably no movie more responsible for the birth of the modern horror film than George A. Romeros Night of the Living Dead. It established the foundation upon which modern horror is built and set the standards by which it is judged. Along with PSYCHO Night of the Living Dead must surely rank as one of the most influential horror films of the 60s. Night of the Living Dead helped to loosen the reigns of the gothic era of horror which was sending it into a downward spiral by modernizing the setting for fear to that of todays world. Night of the Living Dead is the quintessential zombie movie. It helped to establish the modernday mythology of the flesheating zombie. Prior to Night nearly all zombie movies dealt with voodoo as the primary vessel for reviving the dead. In turn these zombies served as mindless slaves their human masters. In contrast Romeros zombies were true monsters creatures of destruction. They lived again to feed on the living. ... 2008-4-7 00:10:08 http://www.elliotttucker.com/page19.htm#22072 Light. Night. A small grey room a pale grey the colour of a herring gulls wings. Eternal limbo at least eventless tolerably nothing. If it had not been for the two women staring down. Obscurely reproached by the closer and more requiring face it made another unwilling deduction for some reason it was a centre of attention an I of sorts. The face smiled descended with a mixture of the solicitous and the sceptical concern tainted with a perhaps involuntary suspicion of malingering. Darling With another painfully swift and reducing intuition it realized it was not just an I but a male I. That must be where the inrushing sense of belowness impotence foolishness came from. It I it must be he watched the mouth glide down like a parachutist and land on his forehead. Touch and scent this could not be film or dream. Now the face hovered over his. Whispered words issues from the red orifice. Darling you know who I am He stared. Im Claire. Not at all clea... 2008-3-30 02:10:06 http://www.elliotttucker.com/page19.htm#21715 Genesis 11 The Tower of Babel 1 Now the whole world had one language and a common speech. 2 As men moved eastward a they found a plain in Shinar b and settled there. 3 They said to each other Come lets make bricks and bake them thoroughly. They used brick instead of stone and tar for mortar. 4 Then they said Come let us build ourselves a city with a tower that reaches to the heavens so that we may make a name for ourselves and not be scattered over the face of the whole earth. 5 But the LORD came down to see the city and the tower that the men were building. 6 The LORD said If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them. 7 Come let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other. 8 So the LORD scattered them from there over all the earth and they stopped building the city. 9 That is why it was called Babel c because there the LORD confused the language of the whole world. ... 2008-3-22 11:04:32 http://www.elliotttucker.com/page19.htm#21488 Angel Heurtebise on the steps Beats me with his wings Of watered silk refreshes my memory The rascal motionless And alone with me on the agate Which breaks ass your supernatural Packsaddle. Angel Heurtebise with incredible Brutality jumps on me. Please Dont jump so hard Beastly fellow flower of tall Stature. Youve laid me up. Thats Bad manners. I hold the ace see What do you have 2008-3-18 00:02:24 http://www.elliotttucker.com/page19.htm#21390 Egyptian Masters say the Soul is a Living Star Bring the Living Star into the dark and Illumination will transmute the dark. This is the simple truth. This is Real Magic. What if we were all versed in this simple Intention This Simple Truth To turn trash into Treasure On this beautiful planet Upon which we all Live and breathe And have our Being. This is Real Magic of course. 2008-3-15 19:49:56 http://www.elliotttucker.com/page19.htm#20584 Asher was angry. Ever since he was a child he felt that he had not been understood. This was something he had really got used tohe just shut himself off and created his own worlds. As he sat with his toys he created planets laws customs cultures people characters heroism and wars. All built up into an ordered system of different forces meeting and clashing huge battles and momentous moments of victory. But nowwhat did these count for. He had an imagination but it could not find a home. So it turned back upon itself and attacked its source. Why dont you set me free It screamed. What am I supposed to do Who am I Asher locked himself away shunned by people who found him different and odd. The questions burst forth from him. What the hell is going on with the world Why is it in such pain Why can people not see the Real Why do people act so fake Why do we all bring ourselves down Debasing ourselves So many questionsbut asher was tired. So he leant back on his chair and began to sleep.... 2008-2-27 18:07:10 http://www.elliotttucker.com/page19.htm#20382 2008-2-23 19:29:32 http://www.elliotttucker.com/page19.htm#20378 When fission hits you there is nothing quite like it man. It strikes I mean it really strikes completely unexpected and like a huge scorpion tail locking back and whipping out whipping you into a wild and uncontrollable spin. Cutting through the air I plunge into a deep cool pool so deep that at first one thrashes around like cat in a thorn bush the fear strikes and the pain is intense. A gut wrenching pain a pain so deep that it screams at past ancestors. Everything comes together for that one moment and there with such clarity one can see really seeing without seeing but seeing with a feeling of knowing and hearing the cries of it all. It is frightening and it strikes deep at the emotions but one cannot extricate oneself from the inevitability of it all. One yearns for this experience above all else even if it is unlike anything known before. There it can be seen in its purist glory its entirety its unity. It is so massive and deep. I am speechless from its ... 2008-2-23 19:17:11 http://www.elliotttucker.com/page19.htm#19693 in the hebrew tradition one thing that is never spoken about is the mind. the bible only describes specific actions events and visions. jacobs inner poetic love for rachel is not described he just demonstrates it through accessing superhuman energy and pushing the rock off the well. we never get the inner psychology of the characters this gives the interpreters a field day in discussing the inner reasoning of the biblical personalities. it is indeed part of the mysterious beauty of the bible.rarely we get a slim mention such as pharoah hardening his heart. firstly he wasnt a hebrew. and then the info is so limited that the commentaries go to town on the meaning.on the other hand greek literature and narrative is full of passionate excitement describing the inner world of the characters their human foibles. weaknesses jealousy lust. the interplay of the gods is a complex web of intrigue. this inner world is the underworld. and is an essential part of greek folklore. through semitic eye... 2008-2-7 23:57:42 http://www.elliotttucker.com/page19.htm#19514 Fire has been afforded spiritual qualities since prehistorical times and most myths and traditions both eastern and western recognize some element of the sacred in fire. The myth of Prometheus stealing it to human beings Greek tradition is wellknown the Greeks equated the gift of fire with the gift of culture. The discovery and use of fire is charted whether literally or metaphorically on the walls of many caves by prehistoric humans. As the ability to control fire elevated these primitive ancestors above the animals it was endowed with sacred qualities. One of the earliest Hindu deities Agni dates from the Vedic period. He is the firegod and HinduVedic traditionalists still perform dail y AgniPuja or worship to Agni to this day. As the son of Dyaus heaven and Prthivi earth he is accorded the place of the first god. Agni is older brother to Indra ruler of this realm and guardian of the earth. Fire is associated with erotic love and sexual desire in many ancient t... 2008-2-3 20:01:38 http://www.elliotttucker.com/page19.htm#19462 Two peoplestand alone Naked through their innocence Staring into a mirror Their eyes know The spark of dreams And their arms entwined to infinity. Nothing moves between them Their hold is bound tight. No noiseno sound And their fire rages The flames licking their souls. But it all pours out Out of control. Too young to understand Lifes lessons and mysteries. They are thrown into a nothing Punishing and hurting Questions missing answers All solutions negated. So many voices Whispering and confusing. The simplicity of the selves is cracked The mirror smashed to tiny pieces. The fragments muddle Scattered into far corners. Distant flickers of the real Fading into darkness Suppressed and hidden. Flashes of a once bright orb The synergy of two young forces Slowly begin to dim. Do we do things through intention Or does Another guide us The power of instinct It is never wrong But can never be heard known or spoken. There is silence A death ... 2008-2-2 18:01:30 http://www.elliotttucker.com/page19.htm#19292 GENESIS 6 12 And it came to pass when men began to multiply on the face of the earth And daughters were born unto them That the sons of God Saw The daughters of men That they were fair good And they took them wives Whomsoever they chose young people of the opposite sexgrow accustomed to attend to different objects and to make comparisons imperceptibly they acquire ideas of merit and of beauty which produce sentiments of preference. The more they see one another the less they can do without seeing one another still more. A tender and sweet sentiment steals into the soul and at the least obstacle becomes an impetuous frenzy jealousy awakens with love discord triumphs and the gentlest of all passions receives sacrifices of human blood. Rousseau THE PARADOX OF BEAUTY The sons of god are led by their eyes toward visible feminine beauty. Who can blame them. Throughout the animal world nature uses superficial looks in bringing the two sexes together. The love of ... 2008-1-29 17:27:04 http://www.elliotttucker.com/page19.htm#19133 We seem to have a natural predilection for the aesthetic we are drawn to the beautiful and repulsed by the horrible in natureeven though it is difficult to define the exact parameters of each. creation This is not the result of study or understanding but anatural inclination with which we seem to be endowed.It is true that the term beautiful can indicate a variety of things and lacks aclear or simple meaning. Almost everything can be seen as beautiful by someone or as reflecting his or her particular point of view. But there are enough people who seem to be affected in a similar way by certain visions to make us think thatbeautiful is real and has been programmed into the human personality. It is possible that one of the reasons we are endowed with an innate sense of beauty is to enable usto stand with wonder and awe at the creation or at least at those moments which in an almost miraculous way direct us to the beauty of the divine craft.If we have been robbed of the miraculous moment ... 2008-1-25 11:10:01 http://www.elliotttucker.com/page19.htm#19108 Irony RomanticPublished article in Encyclopedia of German LiteratureAround the turn of the 19th century the concept of irony which as a rhetorical figure and mode of discourse had been part of the repertoire of European writing since antiquity was substantially modified to assist in the solution of crucial Romantic problems. Taking its name from the Greek eironeia dissimulation irony consists of purporting a meaning of an utterance or a situation that is different often opposite to the literal one. Its intellectual and didactic function lies in its oppositional nature which requires a constructive independent involvement from the addressee who must infer the latent meaning. It was this oppositional nature and the constructive reaction it demands that attracted the Romantic thinkers.The Romantic endeavour to avoid onedimensional approaches in its search to achieve a vision of totality utilized irony to express opposites together without neutralizing them. Romantic irony aims at a perpet... 2008-1-24 20:01:07 http://www.elliotttucker.com/page19.htm#19039 2008-1-23 20:05:48 http://www.elliotttucker.com/page19.htm#18944 Yes according to Fred Hechinger. This is from THE NEW YORK TIMES Sunday February 13 1972. A LIBERAL FIGHTS BACK by Fred M. Hechinger Liberals said Malcolm McDowell star of A Clockwork Orange hate that film. The implication is that there is something shameful in the liberals reaction that at the very least they dont know the score. Quite the opposite is true. Any liberal with brains should hate Clockwork not as a matter of artistic criticism but for the trend this film represents. An alert liberal should recognize the voice of fascism. Movies dont alter the world they pose questions and warnings said Mr. McDowell. This is close to the truth. Movies reflect the mood of the world because they pander to the frame of mind of their potential customers. During the Depression years Hollywood offered those eyefilling and mindsoothing productions that took a despondent publics thoughts off the grim reali... 2008-1-22 02:22:55 http://www.elliotttucker.com/page19.htm#18740 2008-1-17 19:34:54 http://www.elliotttucker.com/page19.htm#18704 2008-1-16 00:18:04 http://www.elliotttucker.com/page19.htm#18703 Words streamed out from an invisible mouth took on life and came towards me. They twisted and turned before me changing their shapes like slave girls in their dresses of many colours then they sank into the ground or turned into an iridescent haze in the air and vanished making room for the next. For a little while each hoped I would choose it and not look at the next. but what happened was different completely different from what I imagined. My skin my muscles my body suddenly remembered without revealing the secret to my brain. They made movements that I had not willed had not intended. As if my limbs no longer belonged to me All at once when I took a few steps into the room I found myself walking with a strange faltering gait. That is the way someone walks who is constantly in fear of falling forward on to his face I said to myself. Yes yes yes That was the way he walked I knew quite clearly that is the way he is. I was wearing an alien face clean shaven with prominent cheek ... 2008-1-16 00:15:45 http://www.elliotttucker.com/page19.htm#18511 The potter of all potters locked himself away in his tall studio. He remained there time after time perfecting his creative techniques. There was never a man so dedicated to his work. He was such a perfectionist that even if he created a pot that was nearly to his satisfaction he would destroy it and begin again. To many this was an unbelievable means of working but it fired up the potter winding him up like a coiled spring and he poured his frenzied energy slowly out onto his glorious works. The potter made one pot after another each one large and more complexly beautiful than the one preceding it. However he destroyed each one and began all over again. It is not right said the potter to himself. The distance between his mental image the real image was still too far. But is the gap not infinite How many pots will need to be made before even the real image is in sight of the mental one He kept going undeterred by the gnawings ... 2008-1-12 11:18:32 http://www.elliotttucker.com/page19.htm#18388 There was once a terrific knight who had a wonderful suit of armour. He used to travel far and wide winning contest after contest. He appeared as a great warrior. He had an incredibly quick set of reflexes and he based his fighting strategy on speedy sudden contests. He was undefeated and tossed away every challenge. However deep beneath the armour the knight was a scared young man. Noone could see him inside this suit so they took him upon face value and anyway what did they care they were far too busy with their own lives. Well the time came when all the battles were won and everyone got on without fighting and began to work. Well it was not that they actually got on. Everyone had to act in a certain way to fit into a fragile castle system of give and take. However the system became so full that only those who had a stern attitude and sociallymanipulative manner got by. Now the knight saw all this. He was rather stuck what to do. He had a beautiful shiny suit of armour b... 2008-1-9 14:58:29 http://www.elliotttucker.com/page19.htm#18356 In falls a young man hard onto the floor. He breathes catching his breath. Suddenly a voice cuts the silence. Make yourself at home Huh who is there Yours truely another like you. What are you talking about Why are you here I spoke out I spoke my true feelings. Haha. The man laughs to himself only knowing why. I thought you may have been thrown in here for something less na239ve. Who are you I am the one who also had the ideas but they were to far. I was battered by the indignant pecking and battering of the masses. What are you talking about I was like you once. A man with ideas a man with hopes and with dreams. but they were too good. You cant be too good. You upset the apple cart the order of things. The system whips back against you punishing you. You cant go too fast too far it causes things to backlash. How do you know all this I can see it in your eyes you are a ... 2008-1-8 19:06:16 http://www.elliotttucker.com/page19.htm#18298 There was once a man who lived in a box. All day and night he sat in his box as happy as a sand boy. He liked his box it felt secure but after a while he began to feel unfulfilled with it. He had a strange feeling that the world was more than just the walls around him. The man was motivated to start looking around his box. As he was searching he discovered a small door He managed to dust it off and prise it open Through the door the man found many people. But the people were not interested in him they were all too busy looking in mirrors. They were fascinated and were endlessly looking at themselves turning one way and then another. They admired what they saw and were adoringly pruning their hair. The man eventually got bored and felt uncomfortable so he climbed back into his box. The man spent several weeks there but the fact that he was aware of an outside place made him feel that he wanted to go exploring again. The man hunted around again and found another door The man sc... 2008-1-7 16:26:56 http://www.elliotttucker.com/page19.htm#18205 alone in this desert under the cold moon spilling its thin blood of a ghost dimly among the voices of my grief how can I give you my lifes love alone in a desert I cannot map where perhaps we wandered with our common father towards Jerusalem our proud punishment do not think I can forget or my laugh be careless ever but shall I look upon old hands or young faces without remembering oh do not think of the white face of moses staring down from the mountain invokes no resolution others may bind you in the still map of silence blind your great eyes with disks others may forget perhaps Ptolemy following his planets round saw how you fell burning among the incandescent demon stars and forgot his horror but oh my children how can I forget one day my love will find a road over the desert and my joy will blossom among you like primroses. One day you will s... 2008-1-5 18:18:57 http://www.elliotttucker.com/page19.htm#17933 in a world full of darkness i wont turn out my light UB40 the ego is the darkness we possess. the self serving self indulgence that we live by. an inability to change to adapt and see with a deeper clarity with a deeper truth. the world is a confusing place bristling with temptation trickery and if you want to find it hatred. we live in the postmodern age where there are no more clear answers to our values. no clear direction for us to follow. we seem to wander being attracted by the shiniest or most garish thing that attracts our attention. so we firm up to self preserve. we tred our well worn paths that were familiar that we know as safe. we stay away from fear from the unknown. we shut up shop. no you say the world is whatever you want it to be well im afraid it is not. there is a verve of transformation of political happenings of social change that is real. the poor are really poor. the cities speak of those who have and those who dont. we can live a secluded lie sur... 2007-12-30 12:29:22 http://www.elliotttucker.com/page19.htm#17932 Jacobs wrestling as a vibrating literary paradigm for a Jewish male identity crisis And Jacob was left alone and a man wrestled with him until the breaking of the day. Genesis 3225 A thrust and squirm in the dust of the floor crunching amid branches strewn across the forest canopy. They are both entwined knotted around each other almost lovinghostile and in close confrontation face to face. Their exhausting encounter morphing into an eternal struggle becomes a blurring wrestle tight and controlled almost a single entity. They writhe to a hum a sound of flux of quivering radiating through the entire episode. Jacob wrestles with his dark adversary in this infamous biblical excerpt. The origin of the man is unknown but traditional commentary alludes to the dark guardian angel of Esau. This deeply moving nocturnal struggle punishing like no other is a potent metaphor for the contemporary Jewish male. This... 2007-12-30 12:04:18 http://www.elliotttucker.com/page19.htm#17895 what was once illuminated becomes distant what was once euphoria becomes tainted tainted with the dissolution of fire the burning of the soul radiating warmth is extinguished in time the infinite conjures up these images but they lose their shine in the tears and pain that follows questioning their vitality and the truths contained in their dense capsules I saw and have seen But fail to see how I did Or what I was With the awe of youth I touched with my eyes for the first time I was lost and found the key The solution to my battered soul Still I tear at my weaknesses Like shackles bound around my limbs Screaming to the heavens In selfish abandon As the gates closed I saw the splendor of my experience What I have been given and possess But still I cried at my arrogance and even more at the emptiness In my own soul I have never felt so alone... 2007-12-29 10:29:26 http://www.elliotttucker.com/page19.htm#16308 Fear rules over us all.This is the way of our contemporary world. Whether its terrorism rapid climate change or economic fearsthe world seems to turn and shift day by day through fear and the fear of fear.Screaming headlines from the media seem to suggest that the world has fallen into a dark confusionwith wars in distant places raging that seem to have no meaningand no definable end.Even more sothis sense of confusion and fear is further apparent in ourselves. Our own selves no longer have a secure sense of place of time or of meaning. The virtual internet generation is redefining the nature of reality. We all ask Who am I unable to find a sense of security and belonging.We are neither sure whether our world or our own selves are becoming less human. There are several ways to react to this provocation of identity. This article will look at onethe development of the alien other.This article suggests that the alien other has become the method with which we express the confusi... 2007-11-8 11:59:07 http://www.elliotttucker.com/page19.htm#16158 I live in a place where there is no hope.The streets are dark and covered in filth. Chicken bones gristle and blue plastic bags dragged into a dance by a passing car. People writhe spasticated in the streets. Drunk up to their eyeballs with toxins blocking out whatever vestiges of self ever existed. Whatever they are hiding from they have hidden themselves so well that their bodies have become walking corpses. They exist as the living dead.Gloating eyes dart in sharp angles. Deep bass drum beats emerge from cars like death knells. Bleating horns sing in a messy orchestra of entropy. And there are the sirensthe constant cry of Hackneyanother emergencyanother one has fallenanother statistic.At night there is another world. This twilight zone of crossings sits in silence half petrified of itself and half relievedthat there is quiet and relative peace. Tramps drift like ghosts in the shadows sleeping where they fall. Metal shop shutters glisten in the amber phosphorus glow.I sa... 2007-11-3 13:52:21 http://www.elliotttucker.com/page19.htm#15841 isnt it what we all dream of...a true connection...another person staring back at you...the touch across the divide contact between the metaphysical abyss that separates us...our physical bodies joining with the fabric of the cosmos. and even more...this person being the most incredibly special person that one can dream of...the most spectacular human being alive...a life that gives life...a sacred breath...a beautiful silence...because it is a knowing of completion...the totality of creation...of humans doing as humans do...love love love. isnt this the meaning of everything no matter who you are where you stand how you think everybody knows this is the only thing that mattersall the fragmentation that we encounter. that removes us from our true selves. that divides us. that drives the ego. that causes pain and suffering. all the shit crap. backstabbing jealousy lust desire the world of the animals. nature out of control. but then in love...all this chaos envelopes into a tight bundl... 2007-10-27 11:33:46 http://www.elliotttucker.com/page19.htm#15600 THE Dybbukby Ilil Arbel Ph.D. httpwww.pantheon.orgThe transmigration of souls or reincarnation is not part of mainstream Judaism. In the Bible there is no emphasis on the afterlife but references to the spirits of the dead do exist. For example King Saul goes to the Witch of Endor to communicate with the spirit of his mentor the prophet Samuel. However the spirits reside in a place of their own and do not enter other bodies in any shape or form. The Talmud refers to the spirits of the dead and to exorcism but again the concept of transmigration is not stressed. The earliest versions are traced to various nonJewish sources including Greek Indian Gnostic Christian and the Islamic Mutazila sect. The concept entered Judaism in earnest only during the 8th century. Medieval Jewish scholars objected to it believing as many continue to believe today that any type of mysticism is extremely dangerous and can influence and contaminate not only ones pure religious faith but his or her... 2007-10-18 23:14:31 http://www.elliotttucker.com/page19.htm#15530 colours...images...text...ideas...concepts....meanings...truths pour forth from an invisible place. but it is a place of seeing that cannot be seen. its known intimately. but too often its taken for granted...misused disrespected ignored. from this doorway...a tiny sliver of light...a piercing dot...a shimmering sliver...shines sublimity...embellished if harvested into a spectral array...a fan of splayed light a phantom of energy. this is the eye of the mind. i see it now. now it is known to me. its skin rolls upwards the lid peeling back. fluid drains away. the pupil pulls focus. light dancing on the retina. the eye looks back at me. staring fixing its gaze swivelling on metaphysical tendons. i can see it. it can see me. eye and eye. I and I. the mirror...of the soul. take its images...its beautiful gifts...dripping in sparkling jewels and rubies...sketch them down...revealing the secrets and whispered truths. connected meanings beyond typical logic. poetry. pure poetry like milk and ... 2007-10-17 18:02:22 http://www.elliotttucker.com/page19.htm#15509 our urban dwellings. non places coffee lounges tv screens computer terminals station platforms generic shopping centres. slow creeping sanitisation and everything gradually smeared in slime and carbon. the city looms large. clogged in smoke and invisible shit that we slosh around our lungs. towers peering over our shoulder. straight lines. yellow lines. white lines. red lines. zig zag lines. lay lines. leg lines. leg dust. wearing away the floors. walking. concrete. dust. drilling. gabbling. munching bagels. rustling newspapers. pigeons hopping amp dancing. necking coffee. the labyrinth that is the tube. chasing tails. turning like a dizzy ratfink. move left right up down. you dont really know where you are going. just move. jerk an arm or a leg. moving something for Gods sake. at least look like you are making an effort. move a limb makes some sweat. make someone laugh. text a girl. do something to make sense of the mistyness. go to point A. then to B. pick something up from C. retur... 2007-10-16 02:05:03 http://www.elliotttucker.com/page19.htm#15113 At the core of many of the biblical Jewish stories is the idea of the paradox...something unfathomable.It may be the mysterious story of the akeidah where abraham is commanded to sacrifice his beloved son isaac or the mysterious story of Jacob wrestling alone with the angel in anticipation of meeting his estranged brother esau and the looming threat of fratricide.The primal jewish experience is the confrontation with the great mystery.Many of my films have a similar feeling. Some are positive aspirations of being jewish whilst other consist of a struggle for faith.The very hebrew term Israel translates as one who wrestles with God and man.The early jewish experience is a struggle against the void to attempt to comprehend the great vast infinite oneness that exists out there.One cannot fully understand it but the evolution of the law makes sense of this energy shaping and harnessing it into a layer of clarity and protection.Therefore the early biblical encounters are pulsating with dram... 2007-10-4 22:12:50